(February 19, 2018 at 6:36 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 19, 2018 at 5:02 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: What life did your god come from?
You can't even explain what the essence of life is.
If life is to put it simply, energy as stated in the Bible, then according to the law of thermodynamics, it had to have always existed since it cannot be created...
(February 19, 2018 at 5:30 pm)Astreja Wrote: No, I think that abiogenesis is chemically possible. We are, after all, made up of chemicals. IMO it's only a matter of time before science connects the dots. I'm not in a hurry to get a definitive answer and in the meantime don't see any reason at all to accept "Goddidit" as a substitute.
If life is just chemistry, why can't we just chemically keep someone alive indefinitely? My cell phone can be powered indefinitely through chemistry, the human body... not so much.
1. Life is NOT the same as energy.
2. Energy *can* be created and destroyed (by production or elimination of mass).
Life is a complex collection of interlinking chemical reactions that is self-sustaining in the right environment.
Living things tend to build up waste products and undergo degradation over time. Your cell phone would NOT be expected to work after 50 years, I assure you. The connections will deteriorate, the metals will rust, and the battery will become useless (that, much faster than the rest). Similar things happen in living things. It *is* chemistry, but if you need to have exactly the right chemicals in exactly the right places in a trillion cells, that becomes a technological problem we cannot yet address. When oxygen is cut off, many of those reactions stop and that produces what we call death.
